New Delhi, March 30 -- In a bid to convey a message on environment conservation, President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday recalled how her father used to bow down before trees and the Earth and seek forgiveness before using them for cooking and agriculture.
Inaugurating the two-day National Conference on Environment - 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, she also asked people to ponder if it was justified to destroy natural resources that humans being could not create.
Recounting the early years of her life in an Odisha village, she said her family had to rely on dry wood for cooking due to the unavailability of resources.
"My father and mother used to collect wood.They would then cut them (into smaller pieces) and make them worth burning.
I used to see ...